Ep 89: How to raise a mentally strong child with Amy Morin

Host: Dr. Cindy Hovington, Ph.D.

Guest: Amy Morin

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist turned author. Early on in her career as a psychotherapist, she went through a series of losses that inspired her to study mentally strong people. She learned that building mental strength is a lot like building physical strength. You need good habits (like going to the gym). But it only takes one bad habit to limit your progress (like eating too much junk food).

Studying people in her therapy office helped her recognize the unhealthy (yet common) habits that can keep us stuck in life. When she gave up those habits, her life became a lot better.

Summary:

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Amy Morin, psychologist and author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.

Today we focus on how we as parents can be mentally strong. Being a parent is really hard, and sometimes we can set ourselves up for success by realizing things we are and aren’t doing. Amy has a great way of putting things into perspective & she makes working on ourselves seem possible.

We talk a lot about how we were raised in households where emotions other than happiness were not allowed to be expressed … if this sounds like you, tune in to understand what this means about your parenting style. Amy gives us actionable ways to talk to our kids about their emotions, mistakes and failures depending on their developmental stage. We also chat about how the pandemic has impacted our children and what it means for the future.

Not only has Amy written books for people, parents and women - she also wrote a children’s book about things they CAN do to be strong.